Tuesday, November 13, 2012

It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by
attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of
reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without
having to bother to deal with facts or logic.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions
than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for
being wrong.If you
have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged
by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years
ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.What
“multiculturalism” boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the
world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world
except Western culture.Socialism
in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could
ignore or evade it.One of
the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized
those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's
money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help"
may warm the hearts of the gullible, but what it really means is putting more
power in the hands of bureaucrats.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old,
then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government
keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular
political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they
claim to want to help.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at
someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your
money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

The essence of bigotry is denying other people the same free choices you have.
Many of those who call themselves environmentalists could more accurately be
called green bigots.

Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their
fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The
difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being
raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue
service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and
puts you behind bars if you don't pay.